Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 is the premier
open source database event. With a theme of “Championing Open
Source Databases,” the conference will feature multiple tracks,
including MySQL, MongoDB, Cloud, PostgreSQL, Containers and
Automation, Monitoring and Ops, and Database Security. Once
again, Percona will be …

Percona Live Santa Clara 2018 update: tutorials have been
announced. The committee rated over 300+
talks, and easily 70% of the schedule should go live next week as
well. In practice, then, you should see about 50 talks announced
next week. There’s been great competition: we only have 70 slots
in total, so about 1 in 5 talks get picked — talk about a
competitive ratio.

FOSDEM

FOSDEM was
truly awesome last week. From a Percona standpoint, we had a lot
of excellent booth traffic (being outside of the PostgreSQL room
on Saturday, and not too far out from the MySQL room on Sunday).
We gave away bottle openers — …

Percona
Live Santa Clara 2018 update: tutorials have been picked, and
the schedule/press release should be announced by next week.
We’ve (the committee) rated over 300+ talks, and easily 70% of
the schedule should go live next week as well.

There’s a lot happening for FOSDEM this week — so expect a longer report
of some sort next week.

A friend, Yanwei Zhou, DBA at Qunar in China, gave
an excellent presentation in Chinese on how they use Percona
Toolkit. …

I think to be fair, in the catch all “other”, we should also be
thinking a lot about things like containerisation (Docker),
Kubernetes, Mesosphere, the cloud (Amazon AWS RDS, Microsoft
Azure, Google Cloud SQL, etc.), analytics …

The end of the year is upon us, and this column is being penned a
little earlier than usual as I enjoy a quick bout of wrapping up
for the year.

We’ve had a lot of things happen in the database world. It’s
clear that open source is everywhere, the cloud is large, and
we’ve seen a lot of interesting movements in our MySQL world,
from the standpoint of corporate contributions too. GitHub
continues to enhance Orchestrator, and gh-ost
keeps on getting better; Facebook has ensured MyRocks is now
mainstream in both MariaDB Server and Percona Server for MySQL
distributions; Alibaba Cloud and Tencent have been contributing
to make MariaDB Server better. …

I think the biggest news from last week was from cPanel – if you
haven’t already read the post, please do – on Being a Good Open Source Community Member: Why we
hesitated on MySQL 5.7. cPanel anticipated MariaDB
being the eventual replacement for MySQL, based on movements from
Red Hat, Wikipedia and Google. The advantage focused on
transparency around security disclosure, and the added
features/improvements. Today though, “MySQL now consistently
matches or outpaces MariaDB when it comes to development and
releases, which in turn is increasing the demand on us for
providing those upgraded versions of MySQL by our users.”
And …

As the year winds up, we received many requests to extend the
Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 call for
papers. Since many speakers wanted to submit during the week
that they’re planning vacations (from Christmas until New Year’s
Day), we realized that December 22 was too soon.

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